The Department of Interior’s matching grant program funding the states, tribes, and certified local governments, and making grants to the National Trust for Historic Preservation for specific projects. Source: Montgomery, Susan West. A Blueprint for Lobbying . Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic ...

When a fiscal year begins and the Congress has not yet enacted all the regular appropriation bills for that year, it passes a joint resolution “continuing appropriations” for government agencies at rates generally based on their previous year’s appropriations. (Used interchangeably with Continuing Resolution ...

Distinguished from adjournment in that a recess does not end a legislative day and therefore does not interfere with unfinished business. The House, which operates under much stricter rules than the Senate, usually adjourns from day to day. The Senate often recesses. Source: Montgomery, Susan West. ...

A meeting between the representatives of the House and Senate to reconcile differences between the two houses over provisions of similar bills that have been passed by each chamber. Members of the conference committee are appointed by the Speaker and the president of the Senate, and are called “managers” ...

By Gwen North Reiss July 8, 2016, is the 110th anniversary of Philip Johnson’s birth . His life—he died in 2005 at age 98—spanned almost a century. Born in 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, Johnson traveled east to attend the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, and went on to study the Classics and philosophy ...

Welcome to Houston—virtually and in person! We are now on site for the National Trust’s Annual conference: PastForward . While the conference officially kicks off today, yesterday attendees enjoyed Texas hospitality at a reception where the National Trust unveiled the report on the federal ...

Hello everyone! My name is Genie Cooper and I'm a historic preservation planner from Selma, Texas, which is very near historic San Antonio. In my consulting firm, Preservation Matters, I do National Register nominations/assessments for potential tax credits, grants procurement, Section 106 compliance, ...

Hello, everyone! I'm delighted to be part of this group. I appreciate the information, knowledge and resources shared through the Forum. Thank you for the experience. ------------------------------ Betsy Hatfield, Executive Director Preservation Kentucky Frankfort KY ----------------------------- ...

Hi Everyone, We hold about 550 preservation easements across the state and are looking for a more efficient way of managing the properties including inspections, approved alterations, and communication with the owners. We have one staff person to manage this program and we currently use Excel to keep ...

We're looking for a needle in a haystack example, of any mid-century bowling alleys that might have been re-purposed (in a preservation way) with a housing component (either as reuse and/or surrounding new construction). Any and all examples are helpful. Thanks! ------------------------------ Adrian ...

Aloha everyone! My name is Andrea Nandoskar and I'm with Historic Hawaii Foundation (HHF), Hawaii's only statewide nonprofit organization dedicated solely to preserving the historic and cultural sites that tell the stories of Hawaii's history. I've been with HHF for 5 1/2 years mainly working on communication ...

Hello all, I'm excited to see this new platform and community. My name is Moira and I work at the National Trust in our Easement Program. I'm also an Executive Committee member of Latinos in Heritage Conservation (check us out! https://www.facebook.com/latinoheritageconservation/ ) Prior to the National ...

Hi Kathryn! I'm based in the Los Angeles area, and it is definitely a mixed bag here. To the rest of the country, we're still considered "new," so our area is just getting to a point where we're figuring out what "historic preservation" actually means here. Not only is a lot of our building stock just ...

I think Facebook would be a wonderful way to go, based on what I've seen in Fannin County GA/Polk County TN. Some folks in the Copper Basin area of North Georgia/Tennessee started a Facebook group to "Preserve the Pictorial History of McCaysville/Copperhill' It's been active for several years now, ...

Jamesha, I don't know what the solution is, but appreciate your raising the question. I think the National Trust has attempted to do this through their listening sessions over the last couple years on the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act and perhaps they are trying to do this ...

Again, sorry to comment at such a late date, but you have presented a very interesting situation. When I was in architecture school many years ago, my favorite professor was a disciple of Mies van der Rhoe, so I grew to be partial to the rectilinear form of the house that is being proposed. It also conforms ...

Hi Suzanne, Great question! I work at The L'Enfant Trust in DC, and we have found our database to be crucial in maintaining our easement portfolio. It is a Filemaker database, and every interaction that has to do with the property is put in the database--phone calls with the owner, requests for changes ...

Hi Gylbert, Facebook doesn't charge to set up a page. And once you learn more about it all it can be fun to maintain one. Instruction on how to set up a page and learn more about the ins and outs of using it can be difficult when not in person-at least it would be for me. Someone else on Forum Connect ...

Greetings Adrian: I grew up in Flourtown on the northern outskirts of Philadelphia, just beyond Chestnut Hill. The bowling alley of my earliest memory, at Bethlehem Pike and Haws Lane, which was long and narrow, perhaps with 6 lanes at most, was converted into an automatic car wash in the late 1950s. ...

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On Tuesday, September 26, as part of the Forum Webinar Series , Preservation Leadership Forum hosted “ Commerce + Interpretation: The Possibilities, Pitfalls, and Principles of Shared Use at Historic Sites ." One of the Barns at Cooper-Molera Adobe. | Credit: National Trust for Historic...

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This is the slide deck for the webinar "Commerce + Interpretation: The Possibilities, Pitfalls, and Principles of Shared Use at Historic Sites" which streamed on September 26, 2017. #ForumWebinar #HistoricSites #SharedUse

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The shared use model for Cooper-Molera in Monterey, California was developed with replicability in mind. With the project now underway, we will hear from Douglas Wiele of Foothill Partners, Inc., along with Katherine Malone-France and Paul Edmondson of the National Trust for Historic...

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By Samuel Collins III As I was driving on Highway 6 in Hitchcock, Texas, in May 2004, I noticed a Texas Historical Commission subject marker marking Stringfellow Orchards . I stopped to read it and was immediately drawn to the story. Henry Martyn Stringfellow was a world-renowned...

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Activating historic spaces hinges on engaging audiences, existing and new, in the reimagination of a site. Successfully activating places requires a dual connection: the contemporary reanimation of a place must both credibly incorporate its past and authentically resonate with its present-day...

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As the National Trust has worked to develop a shared use model for Cooper-Molera in Monterey, California, we have worked to make our process as transparent as possible so that our lessons learned can be used by historic sites, house museums, and other types of historic properties around the...

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Originally Posted January 27, 2016 By Kimberly Bender As a nonprofit, a house museum faces the core challenge of raising revenue in ways that relate to the organization’s mission. Fortunately, house museums possess one of the world’s most lucrative resources: real estate. The...

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Foyer at Cooper Molera Adobe | Credit History Associates This post was updated October 2, 2017. As the National Trust has worked to develop a shared use model for Cooper-Molera in Monterey, California, we have worked to make our process as transparent as possible so that our lessons...

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The barn at Cooper-Molera Adobe. | Credit: National Trust for Historic Preservation In her recent blog post on the concept of “shared use” at National Trust historic sites ( "Shared Use in Action at Cooper-Molera Adobe,” August 20, 2015) , Katherine Malone-France...

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By Laura Quinn Cooper-Molera, Monterey, California. | Credit: National Trust for Historic Preservation From the earliest discussions of shared use at Cooper-Molera, it was understood that the collection of...

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